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Robert Hutchins was determined to transform the Yale Law School into one of the nation's foremost centers for empirical legal research. Embracing "realism" wholeheartedly, he helped establish programs that studied court administration, the trial process, and bankruptcy, the last the pet project of the eminent realist, professor and future Supreme Court justice William O. Douglas. Hutchins continued, through both his writing and teaching, to encourage adoption of the realist approach. In 1929 he left Yale to assume the presidency of the University of Chicago and was instrumental in extending the influence of realism throughout the Great Lakes region. In 1934, however, Hutchins, like many other realists, began to lose his enthusiasm for realism. As a mode of instruction, it had never found wide acceptance among the more-traditional educators, had distracted from efforts to train students to acquire lawyering skills, and had received little in the way of...
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